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Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Video: Leveraging Social Networks to Build Web Traffic
Courtesy of YourBusinessChannel, filmed while in the UK with Ecademy, some of my comments on how being active in social networking can aid business and Web sites' search engine visibility. (Apologies for looking and sounding tired. I was.)More: louis...
Twitter Gives Bing Access to the Firehose, Promises More to Come
As previewed in a scoop by All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, Twitter has enabled Microsoft's Bing search engine to have access to the full firehose of all public tweets, adding these real-time elements to the company's data pool. In a post confirmin...
Technorati Roars Back To Life After Self-Imposed Slumber
There are a select few Web 2.0 companies who have suffered such a roller coaster of peaks and valleys the way Technorati has. Once a clear industry leader for blog search, statistics, and individual site "authority", Technorati's influence withered a...
Searchtastic Aims To Extend Twitter Search Results With New Engine
Practically everybody is putting their data into Twitter these days. With an increasing velocity of tweets, it has become an escalating challenge to find data from this real-time information archive, made even more difficult by the limitations of the...
Wanted: A Magical TiVo With Sub-Program Alerts
If you own a TiVo, you can't fathom using a television without one. The ability to have your DVR record multiple channels at once so you never miss a program, pause live programming, skip commercials, and have it constantly searching for new shows to...
It's Twitter's World: The Second, Parallel, Internet
It's Twitter's world. We all just live in it. I just looked out the window from my home north toward San Francisco and saw the sky tinged with a teal blue that spanned the horizon. While at this time last year, you could only see the faintest blue wi...
My Top Ten Favorite Google Products
As Google has grown as a company, its reach has extended well beyond its initial foundation as a massive search index. The company now represents many things - including a mobile handset platform, a Web browser, Web-based e-mail, a social network, an...
Twazzup Live: Best Twitter Profiles Anywhere, Powered by Real-time
Twazzup, which initially launched as an alternative search engine for finding popular items on Twitter, has expanded its reach - first with the product offering customized versions of its page for specific events, charities, or even political movemen...
Twitterfall Launches Twitter Reply Search Engine
As Twitter develops, the service's users are pushing the envelope beyond the company's initial expectations - taking what was supposed to be vanilla status updates to a small group of friends, and extending it to include features that are practically...
No More Beta Codes: Lazyfeed Is Open for Everyone
Almost two months ago, we first introduced Lazyfeed, a real-time blog search and feeds engine, which has grown to be a big part of my information gathering process, following topics which I like, rather than people, or specific RSS feeds. The product...
Real-time Search: What's Most Important Now, Not Most Accurate
This afternoon, at TechCrunch's Real-Time Crunchup event, representatives from many of the innovators in the real-time search space had a quick round table aimed at furthering the discussion, framed by a question by moderator Erick Schonfeld, who sai...
Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search
The overwhelming majority of attention and innovation in the world of real-time search in the last year has been paid to microblogging, with Twitter and FriendFeed making most of the headlines. But a new tool, set to debut in the next two days, calle...
Status Search: Updates from Your Social Graph on Facebook, Twitter
Status Search: http://www.statussearch.net/We used to value a search engine by its sheer size. How many pages did Google or Yahoo! know about in their crawling of the Web, assuming that the engine with the largest number wins, offering a greater perc...
FriendFeed Debuts Real-Time Search Spanning 50+ Social Sites
More than a simple aggregation tool and social network, FriendFeed has grown to be one of the deepest social databases on the Web, taking in information from more than 50 different social sites, including blogs, status updates, photos, presentations ...
BackType Takes On TweetBeep With BackTweets Alerts
Two of the most valuable tools I have been championing over the last several months are BackType and TweetBeep. The first searches through all comments around the Web for keywords you define, while the second watches Twitter search and delivers resul...
Google’s Apps Surround Search, Pulling a Reverse Microsoft
As the discussions around Bing continue, I found myself often thinking of how the product would need to not just be marginally better than Google search for me to switch, but dramatically better - not due to an inherent bias on my part, but because o...
Spokeo Debuts Social Mining Tool Based on E-mail Addresses
Spokeo, having long since given up its initial plans to aggregate all your friends' activity alongside RSS feeds, in what could have been an interesting mashup of FriendFeed and Google Reader, has meandered ever closer to the darker side of Web, posi...
Palm and Bing Triumph Over Low Bars They Set for Themselves
Amidst the buzz from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that took over the tech news world today, in the shadows, something very weird has happened. Companies that were once market leaders, and then, later, laughed at as the ugly stepchildren in...
Google Gets Serious About Blog Search. Look Out, Lijit!
When I met with the Lijit team in Boulder earlier this year, they asked an important question around brand loyalty. While I was already a user of Lijit, did I feel a loyalty to their brand over others? I thought a bit, and answered honestly, that I d...
